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Addictions have been the topic of the week.  My wife and a friend of mine (Blake) Got me addicted to Sonic Slushes. The black berry flavor you don’t see on the menu. Yeah that good.

My wife along with every woman in the United States have found an addiction to “Twilight”. I think my wife was a late comer to the whole thing which means she has made up for it by reading 3 of the 4 books in 4 days.

Rest in Peace: Bernie Mac. Isaac Hayes. Dang it was a death weekend.

Yes the Olympics started and I was stoked about it (Microsoft and NBC announced this awesome silverlight web site (This was at MIX08) for live streaming of video (real time. guess that’s what live means.) However NBC lied and they delivered a crappy overweight with special “games” as well as dead links to crap I don’t care about. To be fair there is some good info about the athletes and back story to them. I just was hoping that I could watch it streaming and well all that was promised. Guess I should not have expected more than mediocre (look for links in my list for real streaming).

New guy (bryan) sized my sites up this past week and was amazed that my blog was actually cool. Also thanks to him he made me realize that my PR or Page Rank is now 4. So I must say thanks and well woot. However he was disappointed when I didn’t capitalize (google ads) my site more. mmm…

Also blog.mikedopp.com will be experiencing some issues. I have to down it again and clean up some bad code. Sorry. I know you will miss my links for a few minutes.

Crap almost forgot. Twitter  let me start following again on Wednesday. Thanks to all those who stuck with me and continue to listen to my rants. I try to make them slightly enjoyable.

So on to the long awaited and much loved Links:

Top Ten (I know another one?) Code Search Engines

50 ( Another one? Come on!) Killer online Resources for Computer Science Students

Test early Bad Practices and you!

As Promised Sources for Beijing live:

How to watch the Beijing Olympics (thanks friends of twitter)

Live Streaming and Mean (ok nice)

Where to watch the Olympics Live

*** That was all I could find using twitter and Google in 5 minutes.

One of my favorite 404 messages.

Everyone knows how much I like cable. Have a look at Comcastic issues.

Understanding the main social networks.

Css Tricks using Video ish.

CSS to conquer the world. Really Conquer the world?

How Google index's Flash. mmm...

So eveyone thinks I am only a .NET guy. I like Python.

Microsoft Math. User - cash = Microsoft products path.

Backgrounds and tiles the ultimate source.... Doode!

Killer app for Amazon Watching. umm Killer eh?

20 must have ringtones. Yes these are good.

Free Desktop and presentation software. Yes Free. Free is Free right?

Blog from your windows mobile device. Yes it's not for Iphone sorry.

Video Conversion Software for Free. Do we want to really converse about free?

PDF to Word to html to um paper - printer and such.

Joe Levi found this funny. Gotta check it out.

How to tell if you have been black listed. Email and web domain.

Fonolo Just liked the name. Some thing to do with caller ID and things.

Cant watch the Olympics live streaming? Play them in Silverlight.

Like Delicious? You will like Visualize (hint its for pictures)

Need some textbooks for School? I will take the google hit for this link.

Twellow. Where do you belong on twitter?

Windows updates downloader.

Talkinator. A light wieght messenger for your blog/web site.

 

Tags: mikes links monday

I consider myself one of the faithful over at Twitter. Constantly updating my feed or tweet if you will. I follow alot of people just to see what they say on a daily basis.

Especially those within the my geographic area as well as the multiple professionals within the field of work I do which is writing web based applications as well as creating magnificent (I know magnificent a great word) web sites. I could give you a list however that is beyond the scope of this article.

Well since last Monday I have been unable to follow anyone else. Yes I follow around 2000+ twitterpated twitti (twitters for short). I get a steady stream of people following me and I like to reciprocate that by following them as long as the twitter is not a bot, spammer or evil in which I can’t explain.

Going back to what happened on that unfortunate July morning twitter updated their algorithm to get rid of extra bot's and such which I applaud. However the rules killed my ability to follow anyone else. I gave the excuse to my followers or those new to the mikedopp feed that somehow twitter felt I was a bot or other evil doer. Of course that was in humor. I gave twitter until that Thursday to clean up issues from the update and still did not see an improvement.

I went ahead and complained at the Getsatisfaction web site (forums) as well as entered two help tickets. I have yet to get an email, tweet or kiss my butt from twitter. Is twitter too big for the twitter faithful?

So my biggest gripe is that others have 10k+ followers and are able to follow more. Scoble for example?

Please don’t get me wrong I like the idea of keeping too many twitter bot’s and evil doers from signing up and spamming twitter. Using the following limits.

Please Twitter reconsider.

Guess plurk.com or indenti.ca will play nice.

ZDnet Article:Twitter AntiSpam (Zdnet)

 

Tags: twitter issues

I am twitterpated with twitter. Ok so that is a bit strong but for some reason I am addicted to twitter. What is twitter? Well think of MSN messenger and AOL messenger mashed up with your favorite forum and walla! So what is so cool with it? Not sure. I mean to the untrained eye it looks like a bunch of people posting about what they are doing as if someone gives a ________ (enter favorite word here). It just happens to be that you invite friends to watch and listen to your tweets! Once again twitter jargon.Bad Bad Bad! I know. 

In case you want to join me or listen to more ranting (wow his blog isn't enough? you ask.) My username is much like my domain name (in case you are not sure where you are in the Internet meta - universe. (mikedopp or mikedopp.com)). Here are a few of my favorite little applications to keep up on your twitter browsing or activity and be warned it is addicting and I am not sure why.

Twitter with Outlook

Witty Twitter (WPF app for your desktop) 

Add your RSS feeds to be posted via twitter with twitterfeed 

Using a OSX client(Mac for everyone else) Twitterific

twitterbox a little more unknown but still very cool!

twhirl Using Adobe Air as the engine

Send a twitter gram(small mp3 uploaded to twitter)

Java based TinyTwitter

Keep up on your xbox360 gamertag using xbox360twitter

Twessenger, a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger.

Twitter client for your windows mobile 6 device (cetwit)

Tiny Twitter for your Mobile Thanks Kevin Cawley! This is for windows mobile and Pocket Pc 6

Snitter Another Adobe Air Twitter Client

Twadget  Windows vista sidebar App

TwitSig Make your Twitting know useing twitsig

Digsby IM client made to use with MSN and your social networking hubs

Ping FM Ping all of your favorite social Sites in one.

Obviously there is a ton more twitter clients more updates forth coming.

Twitter away!

Tags: twitter, twitter.com, tools